[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: For My Seed People
- From: Pinehillgsds@xxxxxxx
- To: Windwalkergsds@xxxxxx, Kmgraphic2@xxxxxxx, showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 10:23:59 EDT
Wow, thank you Jamie, I never knew that!!!! I plant a type of marigolds
every year from the local nursery that literally get to be as big as mum
bushes. They need to be staked, sometimes in as many as 4 places. Nice to
know how to collect seeds!!!!
This past fall the ornamental lilies had the pods you describe. I bet I
could have harvested something from those had I know....will try this
fall....
Some of my snap dragons came back this year...a gift!!!!
But I am waiting until after Mother's Day to plant annuals this
year...lesson learned, I lost the first batch to a late frost last year.
TC,
Kathy, member GSDCA, DVGSDC
Celebrating generations of Dual Titled TC'd Champions
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In a message dated 4/23/2010 10:12:59 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
Windwalkergsds@xxxxxx writes:
In a message dated 4/22/2010 7:16:28 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
Kmgraphic2@xxxxxxx writes:
> jamie - why don't you tell us all how to harvest the seeds from what you
>
> have sent us - then we can help you supply next year.
Well....it's very easy...a little time-consuming, but rewarding
nonetheless.
Each flower has its own way....for instance, the morning glory flowers
dry up and form a little brown seed pod. In each seed pod, there are four
little black seeds....so you get 4 for 1 from each flower.
With marigolds, you just wait until the flower is all dried up, pull up
what was once the petals, and voila! Each individual petal is now a
seed....from them, you get hundreds of seeds from one flower. Same with
zinnias
and gaillardia. The four-O'clock flowers produce one big seed that looks
like
a tiny grenade....Larkspurs also form pods from each blossom containing
hundreds of tiny black seeds. Hollyhocks form a pod that looks kind of
like a
mushroom, and in those pods, all lined up, are round seeds.
Picking them is simple....cleaning them up to individual seeds is the
time-consuming part. Separating the chaff from the wheat, as it were.
But
while you're doing that, it's a good time to reflect on nature's
abundance.
Reassuring, in a way.
Jamie
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